Studio Zalktis
I'm Zintars Beldavs — I build interactive web experiences, films, and animations that connect ideas from far-apart fields into a single thread. This is a living portfolio of recent work.
Interactive works you can open and explore in your browser.
Playable instruments · Latviski & English
Four Latvian folk instruments — kokle, stabule, dūdas, vijole — playable in your browser, with a learn mode that teaches real folk songs note by note, every melody traced to verified notation and its original singer.
Illustrated edition · Latviski & English
The 1978 Latvian sci-fi novel by Vidvuds Beldavs — a fully illustrated bilingual edition with a cinematic trailer, music, and the world of the book, on its own site.
Interactive scrollytelling
A scrollable history of the world — from the first instant to now — told as one continuous, cinematic thread.
Hypertext archive
My mother's scholarly work, rebuilt as an interlinked hypertext you can read, cross-reference, and wander through.
Virtual gallery · 512 drawings
A first-person museum of 512 of my digital drawings, curated into themed halls beneath skies photographed on my travels — with Latvian ornament woven throughout. Walk it like a game; every work has its own wall label.
A selection from 157 videos made over the last few years.
Artists I make things with — and for. The studio is bigger than one person.
Character design · Sequential art · 3D
Digital artist, character designer, and old friend from the band days. His diner comic Le Café Diablo is now a walkable 3D café — episodes on the walls, specials on the board, a sentient coffee cup on the counter. Site and café built here at the studio; all art is his.
The zalktis — the grass snake — is an ancient Latvian symbol of wisdom, protection, and the thread that connects the worlds. I weave ideas from history, science, art, and myth to create new experiences that honor the old.
I work across interactive web, film, and animation. Some pieces are large and cinematic; some are quiet experiments. They share a belief that the best way to understand the future is to tell its story well.
Get in touch: [email protected]
